Murdo Macdonald

Patrick Geddes's Intellectual Origins (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Patrick Geddes is one of Scotland's most remarkable thinkers of the late-nineteenth century. His environmental and cultural message endures today, yet the distinctively Scottish context to his thinking has not been properly acknowledged. This book situates Geddes within his own intellectual background (described by George Davie as 'the democratic intellect') and explores the relevance of that background to Geddes's substantial national and international achievements across a truly impressive range of disciplines. Key Features:Explores Patrick Geddes Scottish intellectual background in depth for the first time;Highlights Geddes's insistence on the importance of arts to sciences and vice versa, and the distinctively Scottish context of this approach;Considers the interdisciplinary achievements of Geddes in Edinburgh, Dundee, Paris, London and India;Pays particular attention to his leadership of the Celtic Revival both from a Scottish perspective and with respect to international links, in particular with Indian cultural revivalists such as Ananda Coomaraswamy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474454094
• Artikelnr.: 72430753

Autorenporträt

Murdo Macdonald is Emeritus Professor of History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee. He was editor of Edinburgh Review from 1990-1994. He is author of Scottish Art in Thames and Hudson's World of Art series.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Patrick Geddes and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition
A generalist among generalists
Disciplines and interdisciplinarity
Visual thinking and interdisciplinarity
Presbyterianism and interdisciplinarity
Art and science
Chapter 2 Geography, History and Place
Ballater and Perth
The Black Watch
Garden and world
Dundee, Edinburgh and London
France and Mexico
Chapter 3 Arts, Crafts and Social Reform
Edinburgh in the 1880s
The Edinburgh Social Union
James Mavor and The Scottish Arts Review
The Arts and Crafts Congress of 1889
Chapter 4 Patrick Geddes, D'Arcy Thompson and the Early Years of University
College Dundee
The Dundee Naturalists' Society
Patronage for a Professor
Chapter 5 Education, Anarchism and Celtic Revival in Edinburgh
University Hall: buildings as interdisciplinary education
A party with Kropotkin
The New Evergreen
Chapter 6 Manifestos in Word and Image
The murals of Ramsay Garden
The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal
Chapter 7 Models of Celticism
The Celtic Library
William Sharp and Alexander Carmichael
Chapter 8 Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Revival
An international summer meeting
The Outlook Tower as generalist college
Chapter 9 Paris 1900: Local Revival as Global Project
The Paris Universal Exhibition
Looking to India: Geddes, Vivekananda and Nivedita
Chapter 10 City Development as Interdisciplinary Project
The Dunfermline Plan: institutes of science, history and art
Cities in evolution
Chapter 11 Ecological Research in Dundee
Ecology as a science: Geddes's students and Bartholomew's mapping
The British Association Meeting of 1912
Chapter 12 Dramatising the Past and Informing the Future
Masques of learning
Saint Columba as point of reference
Coomaraswamy, Indian art, and Celticism
Encyclopaedias and colleges
Publishing and the masques
Chapter 13 Looking East
Baha'ism and Theosophy
Celtic revival and Bengali revival
Scottish interdisciplinarity in Indian reflection
Sunwise turn and dance of Shiva
Chapter 14 A Farewell Lecture
Moving on from Dundee
An Italian coda
Appendix 1 Patrick Geddes: a visual primer in ten images
Appendix 2 List of Murdo Macdonald's writings about Patrick Geddes and his
milieu